[Open-transport] OKFest updates & travel bursaries

Sat Jul 21 12:37:36 UTC 2012

Dear all,

as some of you might be aware, members of this working group have been putting together an PSI Sectorial Meeting on Transport Data and the Open Transport Track at the Open Knowledge Festival,  17-22 September 2012 in Helsinki, Finland. http://okfestival.org/. More information, see below.

I quickly wanted to let you know that the last round of travel bursaries for the OKFestival has been announced. If you want to come to Helsinki, do apply! More information, see below.

All the best
Daniel

Invitation to join the PSI Sectorial Meeting on Transport Data and the Open Transport Track at the Open Knowledge Festival,  17-22 September 2012 in Helsinki, Finland.

Part I. PSI Sectorial Meeting: A round table with key transport data stakeholders
Part II. Series of presentations, talks and plenary discussions on open transport data
Part III. Hands-on! Building the emerging open transport data re-use community

# PART I : Monday 17th September, 13:00 - 17:30

PSI Sectorial Meeting: A round table with key transport data stakeholders

The PSI Sectorial Workshop “Transport Data – fuelling future mobility and smart cities” will be held on Monday 17 September 2012, in Helsinki, pulling together around 20 key stakeholders from across Europe, including national and European policy makers, public sector dataholders, industry representatives and the emerging open transport data re-user community. We would start in the afternoon at 13.00, allowing people to arrive in the morning, and finish around 17.30, obviously inviting you to stay on for dinner.

The basic aim of the Workshop is to:

- bring in dialogue the EC with national Open Data policy makers and stakeholders.
- bring new emerging re-users to the table as well as existing players.
- to get on board (semi) public sector board transport data holders, demonstrating the richness of sources and the impact Open Data may have on their organisations and subsequent value chain.
- identify the transport data specific issues, that are hampering the free flow of the Open Data across Europe, these are data specific and market specific.

The Workshop, is really a “Work Shop”: after a 30 minutes session of 3 short presentations (representing public data holders, re-users and policy makers), we will split up in 4 small working groups. Each working group will have a specific mission to be solved and to be reported upon in the last session of the day. On the fly, we will try to draw up the Transport Data Helsinki Declaration, a 1 pager, holding recommendations on data re-use policy and practice, which will be widely distributed and also be fed into the relevant sessions of the OKF Festival in the days to come.

# PART II : Tuesday, 18th September 

Series of presentations, talks and plenary discussions on open transport data

A series of presentations, talks, plenary discussions in the main OKFestival program to share and feedback the outcomes of the discussion from the PSI sectorial workshop to the broader OKFest audience. 

Talks 11:30 - 13:00
1. Keynote (30min)
2. Introducing the "Transport Data Helsinki Declaration" from PSI sectorial workshop (30min)
3. User-experience: social, mobile, integrated, commuting vs. travelling (30min)

Talks 14:00 - 15:30
4. Open transport data, the technical side (standards, static/dynamic/real-time...) (45min)
5. Open transport data, the policy side (introduction for a discussion) (45min)

Talks 16:00 - 17:30
5. Existing apps: let's make them go global by adding open data.

Plenary Discussion 18:00 - 19:30
A round table with different stakeholders discussing best practices for transport data

# PART III : Wednesday, 19th September

Hands-on! Building the emerging open transport data re-use community

1. From dynamic to real-time data 11:30 - 13:00
2. Creating transport user interfaces 14:00 - 15:30
3. Kick-off for an open transport data handbook 16:00 - 17:30

Planning document: http://okfnpad.org/OKFest-transport-track
Program Draft: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BY80qxQe0HT6wvjxH4fDhu6TTMcKYN5S9Pjp3JmXmdk/edit

## Last round of Travel Bursaries & Free Week-Long Tickets

We are also very happy to announce another round of Travel Bursaries for development practitioners, coders and new international guests thanks to Sida (the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency), the Sunlight Foundation and other programme partners. Deadlines are the 1st and 8th of August, so we recommend applying soon. Applications can be found at http://okfestival.org/travel-bursaries/.

## Early Bird Tickets now open

OKFestival 2012 Early Bird Tickets are available at discounted rates until the first week of August at http://okfestival.org/early-bird/tickets. This year we offer both day and week tickets, with week-long tickets covering all of OKFestival’s action-packed core conference days from Tues Sept 18th to Thurs Sept 20th, with a summary and debrief day on Fri Sept 21st. A diverse variety of Satellite Events are also running before and after the event.

See also our latest blog post about OKFestival
http://blog.okfn.org/2012/07/18/okfestival-goes-global-tickets-and-bursaries-now-public/

--
Daniel Dietrich
Open Government Data WG Coordinator 
EU Open Data WG Coordinator 
OKF Germany Chairman
ePSI platform Editor

Open Knowledge Foundation
Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age
www.okfn.org - www.okfn.de

www.ddie.me
twitter.com/ddie
+49 176 327 685 30

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